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Patented Jan. 31

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE- MAXIMILIAN SOI-IWVEIZER, OF NAUBUC,CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,334, dated January31,1888.

Application filed September 23, 1887. Serial No. 250,518. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, hL-IXIMILIAN ScHwEIzER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Naubuc, Hartford county,Oonnecticut,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Table-Cutlery, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for securing the tangs of table-cutlerywithin their handles, and more particularly to that class in which thehandles are made of two pieces or scales united together and to the tangby rivets; and it consists in the novel structure, hereinafter too fullyset forth to need further preliminary description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a knife-bladeprovided with atang embodying the improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar viewof separated scales. forming, when together, a handle for cutlery. Fig.3 is an elevation of the blade and tang associated with a pair of scalesof a handle in sectional elevation in its incomplete condition. Fig. 4is a similar view of the same when the securing of the handle to thetang is complete. Figs. 5 and 6 are horizontal sections taken,respectively, on the lines 5 5 and 6 6 of Fig. 4. Figs. 7 and 8 aremodified forms hereinafter referred to.

In said drawings, A represents the blade of a knifeit may be a fork-cutand formed in the usual manner from sheet-steel,with a tang, B, providedintegral therewith. This tang may or may not be twisted, as shown inFig. 1, but is preferably employed when twisted, for reasons that willhereinafter appear. The tang B is provided at any suitable point of itslength, but preferably at or near its end, with oppositely-extendingprojections 10, made integral with the tang, and forming rivets by whichthe handle 0 maybe-secured to thetang. The handle (see Fig. 2) is formedof two pieces or scales, 12 13, which are each provided with grooves 14,extending a distance from the upper ends of the scales toward theircenter, which grooves, when the scales are together, form a recessadapted to receive the tang B of the knife or fork, as in Fig. 3. Atsuitable points in these grooves corresponding to the position of theprojections 10 on the tang the scales are pierced by holes 11, (see Fig.2,) in which said projections are inserted in assembling the scales andtang. In forming these scales of the handle it is preferable to have thejoint extend the greatest width of the handle and with the width of theblade or fork, so that there will be more body of material on each sideof the grooves therein. In such case, in order to bring the projections10 so that they will occupy a position at right angles to said joint,the tang B will be given a quarter-tw st, as before stated, which willcause said pro ections to extend, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the parts are assembled, as in Fig. 3, the ends of the projections10 extending beyond the exterior of the handlewillbe headed down, asusual, with rivets, so as to bind the scales of the handle together, asin Figs. 4 and 5. Another rivet, 16, may be einployedlower down in thehandle to better secure said scales together. In this instance moltenmetal will then be poured in the recess in the handle occupied by thetang, and around the latter and the twist therein, so as to completelyfill said recess and cause it to be firmly seated in the handle. (SeeFigs. 4, 5, and 6.) Simultaneous with this filling of the recess thebolster 17 may be also formed, filling will be in one piece of metal,and the upper end of the handle may be shaped as shown, so that thebolster 17 may be formed over a portion of the material of the handle,thus securing its upper extremity as well as aiding to form a completefinish thereto.

The structure described providing a rivet 1ntegral with the tang securesthe tang itself within the handle, the metal surrounding the tangserving the simple purpose of steadying the blade or fork, thus forminga strong and durable article. Of course it is obvious that the metalfilling may be entirely omitted, and that the tang may extend fartherinto the handle, as in Fig. 7, or completely through it, and be providedwith a second pair of projections formed integral therewith, or bepierced fora rivet, 20, without departing from the spirit of myinvention. So, too, the projections need not extend sufficient to beheaded down onto the handle, but simply so as to lie in the recess inthe scales, as in Fig. 8, in which case the scales of the handle and thetang will be secured together by independent rivets 19.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The combination of a blade or fork proso that thebolster and vided with a tang having a projection or proj ections formedintegral therewith and extending in the same plane with that portion ofthe tang from which it projects, a handle formed of two pieces having arecess adapted to receive the tang and its projection, and a rivet orrivets for securing the pieces of the handle around the tang,substantially as described.

2. The combination of a blade or fork, provided with a tang having aprojection integral therewith and forming a rivet for securing thehandle thereto, and a handle formed of two pieces adapted to receive thetang and be secured thereto by said projection, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination of a blade or fork, provided with a twisted tanghavinga projection integral therewith and projecting at right angles tothe greater width of the blade, and a I handle formed of two piecesadapted to receive the tang and be secured thereto by said projection,substantially as described.

4. The combination of a blade or fork provided with a twisted tanghaving a projection integral therewith, a handle formed of two piecesadapted to receive the tang and be se-

